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ESSINGTON N. GILFILLAN, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

BOTTLE-STOPPER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 581,153, dated April20, 1897.

Application filed April l 8 1 8 9 6.

Be it known that I, EssINGroN N. GILFIL- LAN, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State ofIllinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inBottle-Stoppers,of which the following is a full, clear, and exactspecification.

My invention relates'to improvements in bottle-Stoppers, whereby thestopper may be secu red against withdrawal and it has for its primaryobject to provide a stopper with simple means for removably looking itin place,

p so as to prevent unauthorized persons from molesting the contents ofthe bottle.

A further object of my invention is to provide a bottle-stopper with asimple-permutation-lock for preventing it from being drawn and capableof having its combination readily altered.

With these ends in View my invention consists in certain features ofnovelty in the construction, combination, and arrangement of parts,whereby the said objects and certain other objects hereinafter appearingare attained, all as fully described with reference to the accompanyingdrawings and more particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the said drawings, Figure 1 is a vertical sectional view of the neckof a bottle and my improved stopper therein. Fig. 2 is a plan view ofthe cap-plate of the stopper. Fig. 3 is a vertical detail sectional viewof a portion of my improved stopper, illustrating a modificationhereinafter described; and Fig. 4 is a plan section taken on the line 44, Fig. 3.

In carrying out my invention I'provide the neck 1 of the bottle with aninternal notch or circumferential groove 2, in which engages a catch orlug 3 on the stopper. This stopper is preferably composed of ashell-like body 4,

most conveniently made of thin metal, and

ltion to forming a passage 5 through the shell 4, into which the lug isdeflected to permit the stopper to be withdrawn. In order, however, thatthe lug 3 may not be thus deflected excepting when the lock has beenproperly Serial No. 588,060. (No model.)

set, I arrange within the shell 4 a disk 6, whose edge is locatedopposite an inturned end 7 of the lug 3 and prevents the lug fromreceding into the shell 4 until a notch 8 in the periphery of the diskhas been turned to a position opposite, so as to receive the end of thelug 3. Vhen the disk 6 is thus set, the lug is crowded into the shell bythe action of drawing the stopper, and it is likewise deflected when thestopper is inserted, the upper and lower sides of the lug or catch beingrounded or beveled,vas shown, to produce these movements, and the lowerextremity thereof being downturned, as shown at 9, to insure its firmengagement with the edge of the disk 6.

The disk 6 may be manipulated by a stem or shaft 10, upon which the diskis secured and which is stepped at its lower end in a cross-bar or blockl 1, while its upper end passes through a capfplate 12 and is providedabove the latter with an index hand or pointer 13, which points to thenumbers or characters indicated on the surface of the plate 12 and bywhich the position of the notch 8 is determined, the cap-plate l2 beingfirmly secured to or formed on the shell 4.

The shell 4 may be cylindrical, but it is preferably slightly conical,so as to better iit the neck of the bottle, and the lower end of theinterior is also conical for the further purpose of aiding in securingthe block 11 in place without special attachment. As shown in thedrawings, the block 11 snugly fits the interior of the shell and is toolong or wide to be pulled through the lower end thereof, and in thelower end of the shell is arranged the reduced portion of a cork 14,which is held in place by a screw 15 engaging in the block 11, and thuswhileholding the cork in place also secures the block against upwardmovement by virtue of the enlarged protruding end of the cork 14, whosepurpose is to prevent the escape of the contents of the bottle.

In Figs. 3 and 4 I have shown two of the notched disks or tumblers, thelower one 6a being independent of the stem 10 and being IOO out ofcontact, b y the sides of the shell 4. The pin 17 is in the form of ascrew and may be placed in any one of the series of holes 1S, accordingto the combination desired, by first removing the cork 14, whereby theholes 18 will be accessible at the sides of the block or cross-bar 11.In order to uncork the bottle, it will be understood that both notchesin the disks 6 6 must be brought opposite the projection 9.

Having thus described inyinvention, what I claim as new therein, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination with a bottle having a groove formed around the innerside of its neck, of a stopper having a body portion provided With anopening in the side thereof, a deiiectible tongue having a latcharranged in said opening and adapted to engage in said groove or to bedepressed into the opening in said body portion, a rotary stem journaled in said body portion, a disk mounted on said stem and havingits periphery arranged to engage with said latch and hold it into engagement with said groove in the neck and a notch adapted to receive saidlatch for permitting the latter to disengage with said groove,substantially as set forth.

2. The combination with a bottle having a groove around the inner sideof its neck, of a shell having a vertical slot formed in the sidethereof, a dellectible tongue arranged in said slot and having a beveledlatch adapted to engage in said groove or to be depressed into saidshell through said slot, a block in the bottom of said shell, a stemjournaled in said block and the top of said shell and having a pointeron the outer end thereof, a notched disk on said stem in said shelladapted to engage with said latch, and a cork secured to the bottom ofsaid block, substantially as set forth.

3. The combination of a bottle having a notch in the neck or openingthereof, a stopper having a spring-catch engaging in said notch, arotary disk having a notch located in said stopper opposite saidspring-catch and adapted to resist the inward movement thereof, and astem projecting through the top of said stopper and being provided withan index or pointer, substantially as set forth.

4. The combination of a bottle having a notch in its-neck, a shellhaving a spring tongue or catch engaging in said notch and adapted to becrowded into said shell, a rotary disk located opposite said catch,means for rotating said disk, the cross-bar 11 in said shell and a corksecured to said cross-bar under the end of said shell, substantially asset forth.

E. N. GILFXLLAN. Titnessesz F. A. HOPKINS, EDNA B. JOHNSON.

